Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Carl Heinrich Schnauffer |
Publisher | Carl Heinrich Schnauffer (1851-1854)
Elise Wilhelmina Schnauffer (1854-c.1859) Wilhelm Schnauffer (c.1859-1899) |
Editor | See List |
Founded | 1851 |
Political alignment | Republican Party |
Language | German |
Ceased publication | 1877 as a daily (at least 1907 as a weekly) |
Headquarters | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
OCLC number | 11592407 |
Der Baltimore Wecker was a daily paper published in the German language in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the object of violence in the civil unrest at Baltimore in April 1861 that produced the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.
Related titles for this paper were Täglicher Baltimore Wecker (“Daily Baltimore Wecker”), Wochenblatt des Baltimore Wecker (“Weekly Baltimore Wecker”), and Baltimore Wecker: Sonntags-Blatt (“Sunday Baltimore Wecker”).[1]